Emotional Resilience and the Ecological Self
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Emotional Resilience and the Ecological Self explores the range of emotional and psychological responses people experience due to the ecological and climate crises and connects the importance of emotional granularity, positive emotional regulation and the role contemplative practices can play in building inner resilience. The course applies an intersectional approach to understanding these issues and emphasizes balancing distress reduction with increasing joy. For learners completing the Psyc...
About this Course
This course helps us understand our ecological emotions, a broad umbrella of emotional states we experience regarding environmental and climate crises and introduces us to different skills and techniques that can validate and encourage us to regulate our emotions with support. We will examine the latest understanding of the emotional and psychological impacts of environmental and climate knowledge and how these symptoms can manifest among different demographics, especially those with marginalized identities who bear the largest share of the adverse outcomes already. The most important lesson of the course is that resilience can be learned!
What You'll Learn
- Identify, differentiate and better understand symptoms of the psychological and emotional impacts of the environmental climate crises
- Examine the findings through an intersectional and justice lens, situating resilience in proximity to existing vulnerabilities and suffering
- Review the evidence on how contemplative practices and the inner exploratory work offered in these courses can build a positive and resilient mindset
- Be invited to explore the pathway to recovering your deep, unbreakable connection to all life on the planet and reconnecting with your ecological self
Instructors
Dekila Chungyalpa
Director